Comments | extemporanea: rainy days and Mondays

extemporanea

rainy days and Mondays

Dec 14, 2011 13:52

You know, this planet is fundamentally screwed. It's the middle of December. (And, in related news, how the hell did that happen? I've wandered around for the last two weeks firmly convinced that it was around the 3rd of the month, and here we are with a totally unexpected public holiday to the side of the head on Friday, and Christmas itself ( Read more... )

bah! humbug, weather, orang-utan civilisation, mad socialising, cape, eco-fear

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strawberryfrog December 14 2011, 22:58:09 UTC

This is why we're screwed. And this.

extemporanea December 15 2011, 09:34:22 UTC

Aargh. Those articles are downright terrifying, if only because they back up with facts and figures my own gut feeling of doom. Thank you for linkery, apposite and important.

ext_301110 December 15 2011, 07:40:20 UTC

The mental image of you sticking your head out the window into the rain and laughing makes my heart sing.

xo
Dayle

extemporanea December 15 2011, 09:37:55 UTC

Clearly you are a fellow weather-lover in the same 8-year-old terms that I am. We have access to very rewarding simple joys :>. And it's lovely to know that they're shared.

xavierxalfonso December 16 2011, 11:48:55 UTC

There are ethical issues around mass-exterminations of species, but the earth as a system will be fine. To quote a New Model Army song, "She'll survive us all perfectly well when we're all long buried and dead."

Humans will have problems, though. Expect significant issues around a whole range of topics - from water to refugees - to increase dramatically. And I don't think it's impossible that democracies and democratic notions end up taking a bit of a battering in the medium term.